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91Map — /map/, n. Walter, c1140 1209?, Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist. Also, Mapes /mayps, may peez/. * * * I Graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features usually geographic, geologic, or geopolitical of an… …
92MAP — See modified American plan. * * * I Graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features usually geographic, geologic, or geopolitical of an area of the Earth or of any celestial body. Globes are maps represented on… …
93Aspect ratio (image) — For other uses, see Aspect ratio (disambiguation). For computer screen topics, see display aspect ratio. For screen rotation and portrait mode, see page orientation. 4:3 redirects here. For the 4/3 digital camera/lens standard, see Four Thirds… …
94History of cartography — The Fra Mauro map, one of the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular world map drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter Cartography (from… …
95Quadrilateralized Spherical Cube — The quadrilaterlized spherical cube, or quad sphere for short, is an equal area mapping and binning scheme for data collected on a spherical surface (either Earth data or the celestial sphere). It was first proposed by Chan and O Neill in 1975… …
96astronomical map — Introduction any cartographic representation of the stars, galaxies, or surfaces of the planets and the Moon. Modern maps of this kind are based on a coordinate system analagous to geographic latitude and longitude. In most cases, modern… …
97Nicolas Auguste Tissot — (1824–1897) was a 19th century French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections. He devised Tissot s indicatrix, or distortion circle, which when plotted on a map will appear as an… …
98Image stitching — or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to… …
99Fisheye lens — In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology [Hill, R. 1924. A lens for whole sky photographs. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological… …
100Montage Image Mosaic Software — Engine Mosaic image of the Pleiades star cluster created with Montage. The blue, green, and red channels of this three color image were made from B , R , and I band images, respectively, from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). Image credit: Inseok… …
